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I mean, that's a possibility, but could it also be possible that women, for whatever reason, just aren't interested in IT/tech/whatever in general in the first
by ue_ 9y ago
I mean, that's a possibility, but could it also be possible that women, for whatever reason, just aren't interested in IT/tech/whatever in general in the first place? By this I mean to say, it could be simply that there are fewer women who want to go into tech. So to try and encourage more to come in, who perhaps don't want to, could be counter-productive. And if your goal is not to stop until there are more women in tech, what are you going to do then?
- throwaway91111 9y agoSpeculation only gets you so far.
- ue_ 9y agoAgreed, and that's my point - it seems to be equally speculation that women are staying away from tech because it's 'toxic', and further it doesn't seem to be on sound basis that having more women in tech would lead to some necessarily good outcome. People say they want diversity. I would rather have diversity of opinion and style of thinking and strengths than diversity in things which are to me so inconsequential as race and gender. Perhaps old friend Hegel is relevant here: >When ... a man is told, “You (your inner being) are so and so, because your skull-bone is so constituted”, this means nothing else than that we regard a bone as the man’s reality. To retort upon such a statement with a box on the ear … removes primarily the “soft” parts of his head from their apparent dignity and position, and proves merely that these are not the true inherent nature, are not the reality of mind; the retort here would, properly speaking, have to go the length of breaking the skull of the person who makes a statement like that, in order to demonstrate to him in a manner as palpable as his own wisdom that a bone is nothing of an inherent nature at all for a man, still less his true reality.